Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,998 1,927 2,577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 3.91% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.36% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 964 1,837
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,753 £75,000 +3.45% 732
UK excluding London -40 1,074 £65,000 -7.14% 409
Work from Home -19 894 £65,500 -6.43% 369
London -16 784 £85,000 +3.03% 417
North of England -39 374 £70,000 -2.77% 124
South East +15 290 £65,000 -7.14% 137
North West -48 200 £75,000 +7.14% 70
South West -37 123 £57,500 -8.00% 42
Midlands -64 100 £66,250 -1.85% 56
North East +25 92 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -23 82 £60,000 -16.66% 30
West Midlands -29 74 £78,750 +12.50% 39
Wales -19 57 £70,000 +34.62% 9
Northern Ireland -22 56 £72,500 +45.00% 9
East of England -24 44 £60,100 -3.84% 17
Scotland -60 32 £60,000 -23.87% 22
East Midlands -59 25 £64,000 +6.67% 17
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (1.75%) Confluence
2 26 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.80%) CMS
4 14 (0.70%) Apache
4 14 (0.70%) IIS
5 11 (0.55%) Camunda
6 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.40%) WordPress
8 7 (0.35%) JBoss
8 7 (0.35%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.25%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) DNN
11 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
6 1 (0.050%) Eikon
6 1 (0.050%) RMDS
6 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (51.85%) AWS
2 858 (42.94%) Azure
3 332 (16.62%) GCP
4 267 (13.36%) Serverless
5 245 (12.26%) GitHub
6 185 (9.26%) SaaS
7 170 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 134 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 110 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 102 (5.11%) GitHub Copilot
12 91 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 81 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
14 68 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
15 65 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (3.20%) Azure AKS
17 51 (2.55%) PaaS
18 48 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.15%) Broadband
2 24 (1.20%) Network Security
3 15 (0.75%) MQTT
4 13 (0.65%) DMARC
5 11 (0.55%) DNS
6 8 (0.40%) AMQP
6 8 (0.40%) Firewall
6 8 (0.40%) Internet
6 8 (0.40%) VPN
7 7 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.30%) HTTP
8 6 (0.30%) RFID
8 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.20%) LTE
10 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 1 (0.050%) NAS
11 1 (0.050%) PSTN
11 1 (0.050%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (15.32%) MongoDB
2 228 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (10.11%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
6 126 (6.31%) MySQL
7 110 (5.51%) SQL Server
8 93 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.20%) Redis
10 51 (2.55%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.55%) Big Data
13 21 (1.05%) RDBMS
14 17 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.60%) Db2
15 12 (0.60%) DTS
15 12 (0.60%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.55%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 251 (12.56%) Git
2 189 (9.46%) GitLab
3 163 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.95%) JIRA
4 59 (2.95%) JUnit
5 57 (2.85%) TeamCity
6 45 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.75%) Mockito
8 32 (1.60%) Claude Code
9 27 (1.35%) Maven
10 23 (1.15%) Selenium
11 22 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 21 (1.05%) CircleCI
13 18 (0.90%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.65%) JMeter
14 13 (0.65%) Postman
14 13 (0.65%) Spock
15 12 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 482 (24.12%) Finance
2 365 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 204 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 170 (8.51%) Banking
5 125 (6.26%) Law
6 124 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 116 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (5.76%) Retail
9 74 (3.70%) Legal
10 58 (2.90%) Financial Institution
11 46 (2.30%) Marketing
12 43 (2.15%) Back Office
13 30 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.40%) Legal Technology
15 25 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.10%) Advertising
17 21 (1.05%) Games
18 19 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.90%) Front Office
20 14 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 749 (37.49%) Developer
2 478 (23.92%) Senior
3 361 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 310 (15.52%) Lead
5 268 (13.41%) Architect
6 207 (10.36%) .NET Developer
7 176 (8.81%) Senior Developer
8 156 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 149 (7.46%) Java Developer
10 136 (6.81%) Java Engineer
11 119 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 114 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
14 98 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (4.15%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.55%) Lead Developer
18 63 (3.15%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 54 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (27.08%) .NET
2 431 (21.57%) React
3 418 (20.92%) Node.js
4 332 (16.62%) Spring
5 307 (15.37%) Spring Boot
6 289 (14.46%) RESTful
7 269 (13.46%) REST
8 248 (12.41%) Kafka
9 237 (11.86%) ASP.NET
10 217 (10.86%) .NET Core
11 214 (10.71%) AngularJS
12 209 (10.46%) Vue
13 193 (9.66%) ASP.NET Core
14 113 (5.66%) Blazor
15 107 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (4.95%) .NET Framework
17 96 (4.80%) HTML
18 91 (4.55%) CSS
19 79 (3.95%) gRPC
20 76 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 601 (30.08%) Cloud Native
2 353 (17.67%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 101 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
9 44 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 40 (2.00%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.60%) e-Learning
14 28 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.25%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (0.95%) Management Information System
17 19 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.36%) Linux
2 45 (2.25%) Windows
3 21 (1.05%) CentOS
3 21 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (1.05%) Unix
4 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.25%) AIX
6 4 (0.20%) Debian
6 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.10%) Android
7 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (52.60%) CI/CD
2 945 (47.30%) Agile
3 714 (35.74%) Software Engineering
4 708 (35.44%) DevOps
5 569 (28.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 473 (23.67%) Mentoring
7 432 (21.62%) Containerisation
8 422 (21.12%) Event-Driven
9 418 (20.92%) AI
10 406 (20.32%) Test Automation
11 395 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 382 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 362 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
14 281 (14.06%) Scrum
15 267 (13.36%) Technical Leadership
16 265 (13.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 245 (12.26%) TDD
18 228 (11.41%) Clean Code
19 216 (10.81%) Coaching
20 213 (10.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 654 (32.73%) Java
2 554 (27.73%) C#
3 494 (24.72%) SQL
4 479 (23.97%) Python
5 452 (22.62%) JavaScript
6 367 (18.37%) TypeScript
7 122 (6.11%) Go
8 53 (2.65%) Scala
9 51 (2.55%) Ruby
10 45 (2.25%) C++
11 42 (2.10%) PHP
12 39 (1.95%) Bash
13 26 (1.30%) Bicep
14 25 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.25%) Rust
15 21 (1.05%) C
16 17 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.60%) Groovy
19 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 271 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 183 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.96%) Degree
4 84 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 68 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.15%) CISSP
9 19 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.50%) PhD
12 9 (0.45%) CISM
12 9 (0.45%) MBA
13 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.20%) GIAC
14 4 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (10.11%) QA
2 77 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.00%) GDPR
3 40 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.60%) WCAG
5 22 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 21 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.95%) NIST
8 16 (0.80%) NCSC
9 15 (0.75%) GRC
10 10 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.40%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.25%) PSD2
14 5 (0.25%) SEPA
15 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 578 (28.93%) Docker
2 28 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.25%) NDS
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
6 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 606 (30.33%) Kubernetes
2 353 (17.67%) Terraform
3 113 (5.66%) Ansible
4 96 (4.80%) Grafana
5 60 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.25%) Argo
7 18 (0.90%) Puppet
8 17 (0.85%) Kibana
9 15 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.65%) Cilium
11 8 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
13 4 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.10%) Rancher
15 1 (0.050%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.050%) Nagios
Vendors
1 318 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.35%) Google
3 66 (3.30%) Oracle
4 44 (2.20%) Typelevel
5 38 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.60%) Splunk
7 25 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.15%) IBM
9 21 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 20 (1.00%) Databricks
11 14 (0.70%) Okta
12 13 (0.65%) Adobe
12 13 (0.65%) ForgeRock
12 13 (0.65%) OneLogin
12 13 (0.65%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.65%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.60%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.55%) SAP
15 10 (0.50%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.35%) HubSpot